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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 118 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BOGIE , a See also:

northern See also:English See also:dialect word of unknown origin, applied to a See also:kind of See also:low See also:truck or " trolly." In railway See also:engineering it is applied to an under-truck, most frequently with four wheels, which is often provided at one end of a See also:locomotive or both ends of a See also:carriage. It is pivoted or swivelled on the See also:main frames, so that it can turn relatively to the See also:body of the vehicle or See also:engine, and thus it enables the wheels readily to follow the curves of the See also:line. It has no connexion with the See also:series of words, such as " bogey " or " bogy," " bogie," " boggle," " bogart " (in See also:Shakespeare " See also:bug," " bugs and goblins "), which are probably connected with the Welsh bwg, a spectre; hence the verb to " boggle," properly applied to a See also:horse which shies at supposed spectres, and so meaning to hesitate, bungle.

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